Publication Date:
2005-10-01
Description:
Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) emerged in 2002 to 2003 in southern China. The origin of its etiological agent, the SARS coronavirus (SARS-CoV), remains elusive. Here we report that species of bats are a natural host of coronaviruses closely related to those responsible for the SARS outbreak. These viruses, termed SARS-like coronaviruses (SL-CoVs), display greater genetic variation than SARS-CoV isolated from humans or from civets. The human and civet isolates of SARS-CoV nestle phylogenetically within the spectrum of SL-CoVs, indicating that the virus responsible for the SARS outbreak was a member of this coronavirus group.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Li, Wendong -- Shi, Zhengli -- Yu, Meng -- Ren, Wuze -- Smith, Craig -- Epstein, Jonathan H -- Wang, Hanzhong -- Crameri, Gary -- Hu, Zhihong -- Zhang, Huajun -- Zhang, Jianhong -- McEachern, Jennifer -- Field, Hume -- Daszak, Peter -- Eaton, Bryan T -- Zhang, Shuyi -- Wang, Lin-Fa -- R01-TW05869/TW/FIC NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2005 Oct 28;310(5748):676-9. Epub 2005 Sep 29.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing, China.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16195424" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Amino Acid Sequence
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Animals
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Cercopithecus aethiops
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China/epidemiology
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Chiroptera/*virology
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Communicable Diseases, Emerging
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*Coronavirus/classification
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Disease Outbreaks
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*Disease Reservoirs
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Genetic Variation
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Genome, Viral
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Henipavirus/classification
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Humans
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Molecular Sequence Data
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Mutation
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Phylogeny
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Polymerase Chain Reaction
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*SARS Virus/classification
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Sequence Analysis, DNA
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Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome/epidemiology/transmission/virology
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Vero Cells
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Viverridae/virology
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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